Ken O'Connor interview
Ron Merk wrote the following introduction, titled My Colleague, Teacher and Friend—Ken O’Connor:
I was very lucky to meet and spend many years working with Ken O’Connor. He was one of the funniest people I ever met, with a very wry sense of humor and a great command of language. What I remember about the first time we met was the calendar on his desk. It was one of those daily calendars by which one learns a new vocabulary word every day of the year.
Ken had a big studio in his home on South Griffith Park Drive in Burbank, with cabinets full of supplies, reference material, and some amazing pieces of animation history, including the layouts for one of the songs in Pinocchio, and the model that he built for Walt Disney of his idea for Cinderella’s coach, one of which was followed very closely in the actual film.
A business partner of mine, the late Ridge Blackwell, who had worked with Ken at Disney Educational Films, introduced us. I had this idea of creating an animated film very much along the lines of Fantasia with segments for the film coming from important animation directors from around the world. It was 1987.
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Parent contents
- Parent entry
- 1 - The Mique Nelson letters (Mique Nelson)
- 2 - Katherine Kerwin interview (Dave Smith)
- 3 - Gerry Geronimi interview (Michael Barrier, Milton Gray)
- 4 - Gerry Geronimi interview (Ross Care)
- 5 - Ward Kimball interview (Ross Care)
- 6 - Ward Kimball interview (John Culhane)
- 7 - Dick Huemer interview (John Culhane)
- 8 - Ken O'Connor interview
- 9 - Chaperone for Donald Duck (Janet Martin)
- 10 - Herb Ryman interview (Kathy Greene, Richard Greene)
- 11 - Five Years with Walt (Don Douglass)
- 12 - Ken Peterson interview (Bob Thomas)
- 12 - Ken Peterson interview (Bob Thomas)
- 13 - Kay Wright interview (Alberto Becattini)
- 14 - Dell Conell interview (Bill Spicer)
- 15 - Elma Milotte interview (MICA Productions)
- 16 - Bob Gurr interview (Doobie Moseley)
- 17 - Bob Gurr interview (Jim Korkis)
- 18 - Bob Gurr interview (Didier Ghez)
- 19 - Barbara Palmer interview (Michael Broggie)
- 20 - Hani El-Masri interview (Julie Svendsen)
